Hi there.
In this lecture, we see an amazing game by Alexander Alekhine against Holeshot in 1933, a simultaneous
display game, and it actually has one of my favorite chess combinations.
So you'll see Alexander Alekhine in a lot of tactics and combinations, kind of books and everywhere
on the Internet because he really loved the combination.
And, you know, Laska said his whole play kind of grew out of a combination, as if previous players
just like a necessary evil.
Now, here he's having a lot of fun in this simultaneous display, not entirely sound, but a lot of
fun.
So E4 from Alekhine E5 from Asia 92 396 Bishop b5 d6 d4 e takes d4 Queen takes d4 Bishop D7 Bishop takes
C6.
Bishop takes C6 Bishop G5.
So we have 96, 93, Bishop E7 and now castling Queenside.
So the scene is here from this opening.
Black has that Bishop Han But sometimes King safety factors come in.
It's not all about the bishop pair.
We have h4 H6 and here is which this is a very amusing, fun move, but it's actually technically a
mistake.
What happens now?
And it's the sort of thing I'd like to play in Bullet Chess.
So guess what Alekhine plays.
It's not objectively sound, but what you think is a lot of fun.
If I ask that question instead of what is the best move, What do you think is a lot of fun for attacking
potential if black slips up So this position we can play 95 and treat this like a fishing pole.
Just a rip open.
The phone does seem fun.
Black does take on it on G5.
And now the thing is, if h takes is played black has this knight takes D5 and look at G5 and look at
this diagonal the sort of diagonal of death on for this king is on this diagonal and black can actually
tap into that with this key check and that gives resources like bishop age sex.
If it's taken queenside G5 Czech F4 black can save a lot of hassle here and just play Queen takes D5
just simplifying to save any dangers against the king.
And this is just a very good endgame for black.
Black has that control of the file.
Black is a -- art.
This is the way to play it.
Like Capablanca, a simplifying combination.
So, okay, so that's what it takes.
But night takes is played nine, takes 87, Jack Queen takes and now H takes G5.
Now here, Black played nine takes E4.
This is a bit greedy.
King Safety needs to be scrutinised heavily here.
And can you see a defensive move for black which.
Which would have spoiled the fun, it seems.
What do you think Black could do?
Which spoils the fun in this position?
And why?
It seems black has instead of nine times E for black has night H seven.
And if rook h for not take on g five because once ramping up for mating on h eight but rook f eight.
And actually, if Rook Da won, guess what?
Black plays here.
Essentially puts a cool cadet in this age file with bishop takes E4 that's blocking the rooks.
Bishop takes E-4 orders, won't play here.
There's no attack.
There's just no attack.
But anyway, it's good that this is a similar display.
You know, he's not playing like world class players.
You know, if he was, he wouldn't be playing like this.
It's a speculative attack and nine takes E4 was played.
So we have now five, which is also a kind of inaccuracy.
Why it should play, it seems, cage free so that if 5g6 rook have six double the rooks and essentially
black can survive here with Rook takes g six to avoid being mated.
And the thing is, White takes out a rook, but black has compensation here enough for equality.
So this position, for example, checking six looks a bit crazy, but it's enough for equality.
Black ends up in a stable position with good play.
It looks actually super dangerous, but black is actually technically equal.
So anyway, Rook h5 though, is played and we have a terrible mistake.
Queenie Sax Black had to try at five here and this is a little fun to analyze if Queen C phone Shaq,
Queen F seven.
And the thing is.
If G6 Queen, Sexy C4.
You think black is doomed here, right?
Because this might fret, but this is kind of funny.
Actually.
This is.
I find it funny.
What?
How black saves themselves.
Can you see what black can do to save the position here?
410 points.
Yeah.
Black could save this position with Queen.
Have one.
Check off the rook.
Takes note of sex.
And the thing is, here again, we can put a cork in the file, cork in the bottle with night G4.
If the rooks doubled 90 to 86.
Yeah, it's just winning.
You know, a good position for.
It's an advantageous position for black hair, basically.
If we look at this again.
So that was with Queen C-4.
Yeah, that's interesting.
So this Queen one exists.
Funny stuff.
But if we if we do look at it again and just explore for a moment.
Instead of Queen C four, G six, immediately Queen F six and if Queen C for check D five rotates D
five.
There's actually Queen E six.
This position, Queen six, G six.
And here Black could actually just play Queen St's H five and get rid of White's attack.
And this is just better for Black Black's material.
So that's another way of looking at it.
And here, if also there's even Queen E thinks 95 is very interesting as a resource and if D takes this
position.
Queen size G6.
Queen C seven.
Check.
Queen is mating.
Right.
So that's why 95 is actually a fantastic resource in general to consider.
But the thing is, Black has Queen size A2 here.
And this is a pain.
This is checkmate.
The lines covering detail is germane.
So this position, instead of doubling the rooks, be free.
There's actually f6 and if the moves rookie eights.
And if Queen C format Bishop D five and this is a nuisance because here now Queen A-1 check 94, check
Queen C free and one is white.
Have her again.
Black is actually living to tell the tale.
So this position is just it's just better for black.
Yeah, there's a lot of fun stuff going on here in the Variations, but Queen sex is a definite mistake.
So F5 basically had to be played here.
It had to be played.
And it seems as though Black has some incredible defensive resources.
However, Queen E6 and now we have the Rooks doubling.
Now F5 here you might think, well, it's not much difference, is it?
It's actually a lot of difference here.
What is an absolutely brutal move which has been shown before as a clue.
So there's absolutely brutal move here which wins.
And this is often shown in combinations books as a combination or test.
So as I say, alekhine's whole games are based on combinations, which is why he's now like he's basically
one of my favorite players.
Now, players don't like Mikhail Tal.
I just find his games magical, like Mikhail Tal.
I do find myself aligned to king hunting players, kings crushing players.
But this is a really beautiful, you know, it's a really beautiful, iconic move.
Okay.
It's 95.
And you might wonder, what on earth is this 95 about even?
The thing is, right, if we played G6 to mate.
Queen takes.
We really want to stop the exit square.
How would we do that?
Because if we check this king of seven, if we tried Queen C for check on, unless they want to be mated
and play Queen A seven, then sure, but they actually have this resource D five.
And what do we do here?
Our dream is broken.
So that's the whole point of 95.
First, because we're taking that d pawn away.
So D takes now and G6 is just game ending.
This is the end of the game because it's subtly different.
Queen Thanks G Plant had to resign Queen sex We now have Queen C-48.
There's no D5 resource that's gone.
Rook have seven or Queen F seven.
We're going to be mating.
So yeah, it's a really iconic move.
95 And if Queen takes five, we just play G six.
And if Queen F four chick trying to rescue the situation, Queen is the strongest, absolute strongest.
Because black can't be left in this state.
Two pieces up but we've rook on the cards.
You know that kind of form pawn, It's mating, you know.
So Queen three, The queen has to go back, but then we take on H six and this is absolutely winning.
It's matings in short order.
So, yes, it's one of my favorite queen moves, actually.
And it's amazing.
It's just from a fun, simple.
He's just having fun basically with his chess is attacking chess.
Maybe it's not sound all the time.
And some people have said, oh, he's a bit of bluff sometimes, but it's really a lot of fun to play
like this.
And, you know, fishing polls for me in online chess for getting vicious attacks, activating the rooks
generally against lower players.
That's how I've been winning that record numbers of tournaments.
I'm like high up on the overall tournament point scorer at chess.
But so the fishing pole for me has a special place in my attacking interests.
But yeah, it's interesting that, you know, a court can be put in the bottle with things like 97.
Okay, so objectively, do we treat this game as a role model game?
Only a certain section of it, a certain beautiful section where we want to cut, cut out resources,
defensive resources.
So 95 is really the iconic combination where there's no argument about it, There's nothing controversial
about this.
This is just absolute beauty on the chessboard.
Basically, if G seeks to try and make some air, the knight's covering things, we can just go in with
the two rooks, the pawns covering f6 that's mating.
So this is absolutely, absolutely beautiful.
This 95 to me, I hope this 95 is a beautiful thing to you.
It's it's really chess is becoming art in a lot of Alexander Alekhine games.
And for me, this is this is one in the top section of the Alekhine Gallery of Artwork.
Okay.
The prime section.
Okay, So 95.
I love this combination.
I hope you do too much.